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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

They say the 40th district which consists of Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills (both the City and the Township)n and the eastern half of West Bloomfield (everything west of Inkster and all of precinct 15) is traditionally Republican territory..On November 6th Mitt Romney carried the district by about 4000 vote over President Obama. Curiously both Presidential candidates were bested by Republican Michael McCready a candidate for state representative seeking state office for the first time.Therefore we thought it would be interesting to compare 40th district votes precinct by precinct,.It would give our readers a chance to see how their votes impacted locally.We know Ohio and Virginia were blue states but what about the precincts we live in like Bloomfield 13 or Birmingham 2. And what and where exactly is Bloomfield 13 or Birmingham 2 anyway ?

But first first the obligatory map.......

To get a bearing on the map, The City of Bloomfield Hills is the slightly left of center rectangle with what looks to be a mountain the middle. The diagonal line upon which the City is placed is Woodward Avenue. Going left by guess and by golly you can more or less make out Lahser, Telegraph, and Orchard Lake. Rd. From top to bottom the bottom border is for all intents and purposes is 14 mile. The bottom border of the City of Bloomfield Hills is Quarton and the line below the top most precincts is Square Lake.

We were curious about the Democratic gains in the Presidential election as compared to the local State Rep contest so we prepared the following chart based on data from Oakland County Elections. Because the graph looks at more than one issue it is some what complex. The first two columns look at the Straight Party votes each party earned.This is a single vote for all candidates of the same party. Then we looked at the actual vote totals given to Romney and President Obama. These totals also include the straight ticket Vote and are the the actual final vote for each candidate in that precinct. For reference next to each candidates vote we included what percent was from a straight party vote.These percents are shade in grey. Then we looked Democrat Coston and Republican McCready's votes as though they were in a four way race with Mitt Romney and President Obama. We were trying to figure out who helped or hindered who. The help aspect is called "coat tails" meaning weaker candidates are carried along by holding on the leader's coat. In our imaginary "four" man race the winner's total is printed in white on either a red for Republican or Blue for Democrat background . The vote total for the winner of the actual two man race is printed in either red or blue on a white background Black type on white always indicates a losing effort. We will share our analysis with you in a future article.

Straight
Party

Romney

Obama

Coston

McCready

Precinct

Republican

Democrat

Total

%SP

Total

%SP

Total

Total

Bloomfield 1

252

152

432

58

330

46

261

448

Bloomfield TV

Bloomfield 2

180

131

271

66

238

55

193

276

Whethersfield
Apts

Bloomfield 3

294

239

531

55

541

44

437

547

Doyle Center

Bloomfield 4

339

207

548

62

420

49

335

565

Model Hs

Bloomfield 5

261

144

458

57

316

46

280

440

Andover Hs

Bloomfield 6

366

133

658

56

359

37

265

687

Township Fire
#2

Bloomfield 7

141

132

250

56

272

49

220

258

Marian HS

Bloomfield 8

723

141

1314

55

494

29

338

1347

Covington
school

Bloomfield 9

408

190

718

57

468

41

367

723

Detroit Country Day

Bloomfield 10

343

277

610

56

619

45

515

611

Doyle Center
2

Bloomfield 11

364

247

611

60

543

45

428

614

West Maple
Elementary

Bloomfield 12

260

270

492

53

494

55

417

482

BH Babtist
Church

Bloomfield 13

306

109

569

54

336

32

237

591

Harlan
Elementary

Bloomfield 14

439

120

706

62

381

31

271

726

Eastover
school

Bloomfield 15

220

104

377

58

213

49

174

386

Conant School

Bloomfield 16

203

223

403

50

462

48

384

414

West Maple
Elementary 2

Bloomfield 17

109

116

187

58

232

50

196

186

Township Fire
# 4

Bloomfield 18

232

133

388

60

305

44

243

396

East Hills
Middle School

Bloomfield 19

365

164

599

61

361

45

277

611

Way
Elementary

Bloomfield 20

181

202

367

49

403

50

336

373

Fox Hills
Elementary

Bloomfield 21

327

165

558

59

347

48

280

567

Adam Woods

Bloomfield 22

341

234

623

55

526

44

421

629

Township
Central Fire Station

Bloomfield 23

278

88

491

57

234

38

179

486

Detroit Country Day-Bradway

Bloomfield 24

303

139

476

64

306

45

246

487

Lahser HS

Bloomfield 25

77

200

127

61

341

59

308

130

Fox Hills
Elementary 2

Bloomfield 26

281

122

501

56

295

41

223

519

International Academy

Bloomfield 27

120

178

196

61

322

55

279

199

St. Paul
Methodist

Bloomfield 28

204

48

367

56

168

29

117

382

RV Hackett
Hall

Bloomfield 29

297

99

473

63

235

42

185

459

BH Babtist Church #2

Bloomfield 30

376

247

690

54

618

40

477

706

Bloomfield
Hils Middle School

Bloomfield 31

269

62

386

70

142

44

112

393

The Heathers
Club

Bloomfield 32

255

215

433

59

421

51

354

450

Bowers Farm

Total

9114

5231

15810

58

11742

45

9355

16088

REP TICKET

DemTicket

Romney

Obama

Coston

McCready

W. Bloomfield
1

283

413

733

39

930

44

833

682

Orchard Lake
School

W. Bloomfield
3

153

207

355

43

393

53

352

334

Pine Hill
Middlebelt

W. Bloomfield
7

177

357

425

42

756

47

656

396

Doherty
School

W. Bloomfield
9

186

366

463

40

812

45

685

443

Beth AL
Farmington schools

W. Bloomfield
10

389

387

882

44

969

40

799

830

Beth AL
Birmingham Schools

W. Bloomfield
11

233

525

544

43

1057

50

948

483

5300 Maple
Lutheran Church

W. Bloomfield
13

297

331

706

42

868

38

723

658

West Hills
Middle School

W. Bloomfield
15

365

539

795

46

1164

46

1012

737

Library

W. Bloomfield
16

452

358

942

48

823

43

679

894

Lone Pine
Elementary

W. Bloomfield
17

284

447

726

39

961

47

843

646

Holy Spirit
Lutheran Orchard Lk

W. Bloomfield
19

188

540

456

41

969

56

891

415

Covenant
Babtist 5800 maple

Total

3007

4470

7027

43

9702

8421

6518

Total

Rep Ticket

DemTicket

Romney

%SP

Obama

Coston

McCready

Birmingham 1

471

218

883

53

633

34

448

933

Holy Name

Birmingham 2

440

255

816

54

685

37

477

894

Derby Middle
School

Birmingham 3

335

271

674

50

675

40

521

713

Derby Middle
School

Birmingham 4

566

166

1035

55

566

29

389

1091

First Presbyterian Church,

Birmingham 5

422

212

842

50

652

33

476

902

Midvale

Birmingham 6

506

264

916

55

727

36

536

927

Municipal
Building

Birmingham 7

389

279

769

51

722

39

550

796

Pierce School

Birmingham 8

318

269

621

51

633

42

481

629

Adams Fire
Station

Birmingham 9

291

217

551

53

532

41

419

538

Ice Arena

Total

3738

2151

7107

53

5825

37

4297

7423

Total

Rep Ticket

DemTicket

Romney

%SP

Obama

Coston

McCready

City of BH 1

604

221

1014

60

535

41

405

1052

City Hall

City of BH 2

491

128

830

59

381

34

481

834

Church

Total

1095

349

1844

59

916

38

886

1886

Grand Total

Rep Ticket

DemTicket

Romney

%SP

Obama

%SP

Coston

McCready

Bloomfield
Township

9914

5231

15180

65

11742

45

9355

16088

West Bloomfield

3007

4470

6946

43

9387

48

8421

6518

Birmingham

3738

2151

7107

53

5825

37

4297

7423

City of BH

1095

349

1844

59

916

38

698

1886

Total

17754

12201

31077

57

27870

44

22771

31915

.All of the above data, maps, and graphs we used are available to anyone thanksOakland County Elections under the direction of County Clerk Bill Bullard Jr. Clicking on the red link will take you to their website. In addition you will find similar data for all County elections including City of Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Bloomfield Township and West Bloomfield elections going back almost twenty years. There is also a complete section on campaign financing telling one, who spent what on what and how that money was arrived at. It is easy for anyone to read. We present it here simply as convenience. As often the case in politics and life in general things change. Mr. Bullard was not re-elected as County Clerk in the November 6th election. We hope his successor Lisa Brown will continue what Mr. Bullard and the county have started . Regrettably we live in a time where providing public information often is secondary to cost cutting . We hope that will not be the case with Oakland County Elections and data and the assistance they provide.